Stamford and DuPont Authentication fight against counterfeiters

Cummins Generator Technologies, manufacturers of Stamford AC generators, has launched an anti-counterfeit initiative to protect the Cummins brand. 

Counterfeit manufacturers’ worldwide activities are estimated to cost businesses in excess of 500 billion dollars a year. Collaborating with DuPont Authentication, working in secure overt authentication technology, each Stamford AC generator will be labeled with a 3D DuPont Izon security hologram that protects and authenticates the Stamford branded generator.

The initiative will protect and promote the interests of the end-user, the customer and the global distributor network by making it increasingly difficult for counterfeiters to take visual, credible Stamford counterfeits to market to help fight against organized global counterfeiting. It will also help remove the financial risks associated with the counterfeiters’ use of sub-standard materials and tolerances leading to shortened equipment life, high running costs and potential threat to life through fire or catastrophic equipment failure. 

‘Our launch of this ground-breaking initiative means we are now working even harder to protect our brand, our customers and their businesses,’ said Ben Miller, manager director, Cummins Generator Technologies. ‘We believe this will help protect our customers and end-users from the potential safety, quality and reliability issues of many illegally produced counterfeit products.’ 

In addition to investing in protecting trademarks and technologies through registration and patents, all global production of Stamford AC generators will now bear a high-security hologram and unique machine reference number, enabling instant visual authentication and online verification of genuine Stamford AC machines.

‘We are extremely pleased with the Cummins proactive approach to protect their customers against the damaging threats of counterfeit Stamford AC generators,’ said John Dowd, global sales director, DuPont Authentication. ‘The program development team at Stamford pulled together the critical elements of a strong consumer protection program, including easy overt validation technology, DuPont Traceology product tracking and a global communications program to assist their customers in buying genuine Stamford equipment on which they can rely.’